Ambassador of the United States to Ecuador | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | Van Brugh Livingston as Chargé d'Affaires |
Formation | August 12, 1848 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Quito |
The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Ecuador. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
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Robert B. McAfee | Chargé d'affaires to the governments of New Granada and Ecuador with residence en Bogotá [1] | 1835 | 1836 | Andrew Jackson |
James Chamberlayne Pickett [2] | Plenipotentiary for signing a Treaty of Peace and Commerce | 1838 | 1839 | Martin Van Buren |
Van Brugh Livingston | Chargé d'affaires | August 12, 1848 | November 12, 1849 | James K. Polk |
John Trumbull Van Alen | Chargé d'affaires | November 19, 1849 | July 18, 1850 | Zachary Taylor |
Courtland Cushing | Chargé d'affaires | June 3, 1851 | October 12, 1853 | Millard Fillmore |
Philo White | Minister Resident | September 2, 1854 | September 14, 1858 | Franklin Pierce |
Charles R. Buckalew | Minister Resident | September 20, 1858 | July 10, 1861 | James Buchanan |
Friedrich Hassaurek | Minister Resident | July 15, 1861 | January 13, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
William T. Coggeshall | Minister Resident | September 20, 1866 | August 3, 1867 [3] | Andrew Johnson |
David Alexander Nunn | Minister Resident | Unknown | November 2, 1869 | Ulysses S. Grant |
E. Rumsey Wing | Minister Resident | June 23, 1870 | October 5, 1874 [3] | |
Christian Wullweber | Minister Resident | December 20, 1875 | September 25, 1876 | |
Rowland B. Mahany | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1892 | June 23, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
Edward Henry Strobel | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 15, 1894 | December 31, 1894 | Grover Cleveland |
James D. Tillman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 3, 1895 | December 15, 1897 | |
Archibald J. Sampson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 16, 1897 | July 15, 1905 | William McKinley |
Joseph W. J. Lee | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 30, 1905 | February 21, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt |
Williams C. Fox | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 18, 1907 | July 19, 1911 | |
Evan E. Young | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1911 | January 29, 1912 | William Howard Taft |
Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 24, 1913 | September 29, 1913 | Woodrow Wilson |
Charles S. Hartman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 30, 1913 | March 20, 1922 | |
Gerhard Adolph Bading | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 15, 1922 | November 1, 1929 | Warren G. Harding |
William Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1930 | February 27, 1935 | Herbert Hoover |
Antonio C. Gonzalez | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 7, 1935 | March 30, 1938 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Boaz Walton Long | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 29, 1938 | April 14, 1942 | |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 14, 1942 | May 1, 1943 | ||
Robert M. Scotten | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 27, 1943 | April 17, 1947 | |
John F. Simmons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 16, 1947 | July 12, 1950 | Harry S. Truman |
Paul C. Daniels | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 25, 1951 | July 9, 1953 | |
Sheldon T. Mills | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 19, 1954 | April 6, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Christian M. Ravndal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1956 | August 1, 1960 | |
Maurice M. Bernbaum | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1960 | January 14, 1965 | |
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 24, 1965 | October 7, 1967 [4] | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Edson O. Sessions | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 26, 1968 | February 15, 1970 | |
Findley Burns, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 9, 1970 | May 18, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
Robert C. Brewster | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 1, 1973 | April 8, 1976 | |
Richard J. Bloomfield | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1976 | January 21, 1978 | Gerald Ford |
Raymond E. Gonzalez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 31, 1978 | January 28, 1982 | Jimmy Carter |
Samuel Friedlander Hart | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 22, 1982 | April 5, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
Fernando Enrique Rondon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1985 | July 26, 1988 | |
Richard Newton Holwill | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 27, 1988 | November 25, 1989 | |
Paul C. Lambert | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 2, 1990 | February 1, 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
James F. Mack | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | February 1, 1992 | November 16, 1993 | |
Peter F. Romero | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1993 | July 25, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
Leslie M. Alexander | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 5, 1996 | June 11, 1999 | |
Gwen C. Clare | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 24, 1999 | July 3, 2001 | |
Kristie A. Kenney | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 25, 2002 | July 6, 2005 | George W. Bush |
Linda Jewell [lower-alpha 1] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 2005 | July 22, 2008 [9] | |
Heather M. Hodges | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 2, 2008 | April 5, 2011 [10] [11] | |
Andrew Bowen | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | April 15, 2011 | July 2011 | Barack Obama |
Timothy Zúñiga-Brown | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | July 2011 | April 2012 | |
Adam E. Namm | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 22, 2012 | September 28, 2015 | |
Todd C. Chapman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 14, 2016 | June 8, 2019 | |
Michael J. Fitzpatrick | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 3, 2019 | Incumbent | Donald Trump |
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